A congressional committee has voted to subpoena U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify about the Justice Department’s handling of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The motion was introduced by Republican Representative Nancy Mace, who accused the Justice Department of orchestrating a “cover-up” in its release of investigative materials. The subpoena was approved by the House Oversight Committee with support from five Republicans and all Democrats on the panel.

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“The Epstein case is one of the greatest cover-ups in American history,” Mace wrote on social media. “Three million documents have been released, and we still don’t have the full truth. Videos are missing. Audio is missing. Logs are missing.”

Bipartisan frustration

The Trump administration has faced mounting pressure from lawmakers across the political spectrum to release all remaining documents tied to the Epstein investigation. Although millions of records have been made public, critics argue that millions more remain undisclosed.

Last November, Donald Trump signed legislation requiring the Justice Department to release materials from its Epstein investigations. However, the rollout of the documents sparked bipartisan backlash. Some lawmakers accused the department of failing to adequately redact identifying details of victims while shielding the names of individuals who were not victims.

The Justice Department has denied wrongdoing, stating that “nothing has been deleted” and that withheld documents were duplicates, privileged materials, or part of ongoing federal investigations.

The department did not immediately respond to requests for comment following the committee’s vote.

High-profile testimony

The Oversight Committee has already summoned several prominent figures as part of its inquiry. Last week, former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified before the panel in response to a subpoena.

While neither Clinton has been accused of wrongdoing by Epstein’s victims, Bill Clinton’s name appears in investigative files, including photographs, linked to Epstein.

The top Democrat on the committee, Representative Robert Garcia, has alleged that the Justice Department is withholding files that include accusations of sexual abuse of a minor involving Trump. Garcia said he personally reviewed documents containing the allegation that have not been made public.

The escalating confrontation between Congress and the Justice Department underscores the enduring political and legal fallout from the Epstein case, years after his death in a New York jail in 2019. The committee has not yet announced a date for Bondi’s testimony.

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The likely revelations from the release of the Epstein files are being vastly over-estimated. Mostly they are rather dull and of little interest.

When they call her to testify all she does is she pulls up dirt on the people that are asking difficult questions she’s not honest she’s not truthful you have to understand she’s one of Trump‘s people in her job is to protect Trump TIA

Another opportunity to lie, she is good at it.

She should have been replaced a year ago.

30 minutes ago, FlorC said:

Another opportunity to lie, she is good at it.

She should have been replaced a year ago.

Shouldn't the liars be jailed rather than replaced? Sued for misleading to the public whose money pays for them? Goes for politicians of all colours by the way.

What Epstein files. They have renamed the document folder “xxxxxx files”. So nothing to talk about. 😂😂😂

She can rely on the 5th Amendment. Almost surely, she has information against Republican and Democratic leadership. What she maybe hopes will not happen is the when the truth comes out, she will go to prison for a long time.

Of course, Trump may give her a pardon in advance.

I think the message of most of the other respondents above says it all!

Congress summoning Attorney General Pam Bondi over the handling of the Epstein files might generate headlines, but it’s hard to see it producing anything meaningful.

The House Oversight Committee voted to subpoena her amid complaints that the Justice Department failed to release or explain large numbers of Epstein-related documents despite earlier transparency commitments.

Given how politically toxic the Epstein issue already is, the hearing will likely turn into another partisan spectacle rather than a genuine search for answers.

The Trump administration has spent years using rhetoric and policies that deepen political divisions in the U.S., so there’s little reason to expect this appearance before Congress to suddenly become a moment of unity or clarity. More likely it just adds another layer of political theatre to an already highly polarised debate.

Good. Give her a tough, hard grilling, after taking away her notebook of off-topic, change the subject barbs to hurl at the congressmen instead of answering the questions.

8 hours ago, FlorC said:

Another opportunity to lie, she is good at it.

She should have been replaced a year ago.

An opportunity for her to lie under oath.

5 hours ago, Jim Waldron said:

I think the message of most of the other respondents above says it all!

Congress summoning Attorney General Pam Bondi over the handling of the Epstein files might generate headlines, but it’s hard to see it producing anything meaningful.

The House Oversight Committee voted to subpoena her amid complaints that the Justice Department failed to release or explain large numbers of Epstein-related documents despite earlier transparency commitments.

Given how politically toxic the Epstein issue already is, the hearing will likely turn into another partisan spectacle rather than a genuine search for answers.

The Trump administration has spent years using rhetoric and policies that deepen political divisions in the U.S., so there’s little reason to expect this appearance before Congress to suddenly become a moment of unity or clarity. More likely it just adds another layer of political theatre to an already highly polarised debate.

The polarization is shifting.

Trump is losing support over Epstein.

He’s not going to get his support back by lying or by Bondi lying.

This one I hope I won’t miss. How she can be attorney General I really don’t know. She will lie for Trump, and be paid handsomely .

I'm sure it'll be a good 'show.'

34 minutes ago, geisha said:

This one I hope I won’t miss. How she can be attorney General I really don’t know. She will lie for Trump, and be paid handsomely .

She’ll go off on another of her histrionic rants.

Thank the heavens you’re not married to her.

15 hours ago, Thingamabob said:

The likely revelations from the release of the Epstein files are being vastly over-estimated. Mostly they are rather dull and of little interest.

If you like Pedos ruling the world, probably yes.

So when do we get to hear from epsteins best bud and running mate for years? And his immigrant "genius visa" wife.

Trump of course knows nothing saw nothing did nothing. Just ask him, he'll tell you he was too busy
grabbing gals by the pxxxy and "inspecting" teen age gals in dressing rooms.

Bad news is if /when trump is actually called he will likely start yet another war to try and change the subject and say he is too busy to appear. Only guilty people take the "fifth"....which trump has done over and over in depostitions.

This would appear to be Kryptonite for the man who had a two decade long, close friendship with a pedophile creep, yet claims to know nothing. Ha! Very likely Don participated, in a huuuuge way. That is just who he is. At least who he was. Now, he is over the hill. At least some girls are safe now that he is incapable.

Trump has a lot to answer for, he had a long friendship with Epstein, who said on record Don was his closest friend in the world. There's countless amounts of information about Trump having spent an inordinate amount of time at the mansion, and there are flight records showing that Don flew with Jeff at least seven times, possibly many more times than that, and we know about his penchant for "very young women".

Gullty!!

House Democrat moves to impeach Pam Bondi

https://www.axios.com/2026/03/05/pam-bondi-impeach-democrat-epstein-files-doj-ag

Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) filed articles of impeachment against Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday over her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. The sooner the better for America

23 hours ago, Thingamabob said:

The likely revelations from the release of the Epstein files are being vastly over-estimated. Mostly they are rather dull and of little interest.

All the more reason to release them then, so the American people can see just how dull they are!

4 minutes ago, JAG said:

All the more reason to release them then, so the American people can see just how dull they are!

Agreed.

7 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

This would appear to be Kryptonite for the man who had a two decade long, close friendship with a pedophile creep, yet claims to know nothing. Ha! Very likely Don participated, in a huuuuge way. That is just who he is. At least who he was. Now, he is over the hill. At least some girls are safe now that he is incapable.

Trump has a lot to answer for, he had a long friendship with Epstein, who said on record Don was his closest friend in the world. There's countless amounts of information about Trump having spent an inordinate amount of time at the mansion, and there are flight records showing that Don flew with Jeff at least seven times, possibly many more times than that, and we know about his penchant for "very young women".

Gullty!!

That in itself is not enough to establish guilt. The evidence that may do so is being so energetically suppressed!

It really is quite bizarre, and obvious, the more leaks out the greater the effort to cover up and deflect - which has now extended to wrecking entire regions of the world.

The world knows he is a paedophile - or more accurately an enthusiastic predatory hebophile. It is entirely obvious, and by any sane metric he would be suspended from office and investigated.

His alleged (and likely) actions are an obscenity. That it is being actively covered up by his government is an obscenity, and the crowning obscenity is that thousands are now dying in a war which he has plunged the world into, in a vain and oh so obvious attempt, to distract from it

8 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

If you like Pedos ruling the world, probably yes.

8 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

If you like Pedos ruling the world, probably yes.

Strange comment.

Some fun facts about Epstein it looks like his fortune is about as illegitimate as Trump's fortune, nearly all of it was stolen. Of course Trump's been able to earn a couple of billion since becoming president, through more grift and more corruption.

Jeffrey Epstein died with $600 million. No degree. No track record. And a resume he literally lied about. So where did the money actually come from?

Epstein had a mansion in Manhattan. Two private islands. A ranch in New Mexico. A jet. A network of shell companies stretching across multiple countries.

The official story is that he was a brilliant money manager for the ultra-wealthy. A financial genius who parlayed his math skills into a fortune.

That story doesn't hold up under even basic scrutiny.

Epstein was a college dropout from a working-class family in Brooklyn. He taught math at an elite prep school, got hired at Bear Stearns through a parent connection, lied on his resume about having a degree, and left the firm in 1981 during an SEC investigation.

He had no formal financial training. No degree. No track record of managing money at scale.

What he had was a specific kind of intelligence. Not the kind that builds portfolios. The kind that reads people, finds leverage, and knows how to position himself next to power.

After Bear Stearns, Epstein reinvented himself as what he called a "financial bounty hunter." He claimed to recover stolen assets for governments and the ultra-wealthy.

During this period he was mentored by a British defense contractor named Douglas Leese and connected to Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi. Associates later alleged these men trained Epstein in arms trafficking and money laundering. He also told people he was working for the CIA.

In 1987, Leese introduced Epstein to Steven Hoffenberg, who ran Towers Financial, a collections company. Hoffenberg put Epstein on a $25,000 per month salary and gave him a $2 million loan that was never repaid.

Together they attempted corporate raids on Pan Am and Emery Air Freight using money siphoned from insurance funds. By 1993, Towers Financial collapsed. It was one of the largest Ponzi schemes in American history, defrauding investors of over $450 million. Hoffenberg went to prison for 18 years.

Grand jury testimony identified Epstein as the architect of the fraud.

He was never charged.

That same year Epstein was already deep into what would become the primary engine of his fortune: Leslie Wexner.

Wexner was the billionaire founder of L Brands, the parent company of Victoria's Secret. Epstein met him in 1986 and within a year had become his financial advisor. By 1991, Wexner had granted Epstein full power of attorney.

That meant Epstein could hire, fire, sign checks, buy and sell property, and borrow money on Wexner's behalf without needing approval.
The transfers that followed were staggering.

Epstein acquired Wexner's 21,000 square foot Manhattan townhouse. A Boeing 727 that would later become known as the Lolita Express. A 23-room estate in Ohio.

Over approximately 15 years, Wexner reportedly paid Epstein around $200 million in management fees. Wexner later claimed Epstein had "misappropriated vast sums" from him. He never pressed charges.

After Wexner, the money kept coming through channels that got harder to trace. Leon Black, co-founder of Apollo Global Management, paid Epstein at least $158 million between 2012 and 2017 for "tax and estate planning advice."

Epstein also served as a referral pipeline for JP Morgan, sending high-net-worth clients to the bank and earning finder's fees. The bank considered him one of their top producers.

He set up shop in the U.S. Virgin Islands where generous tax incentives helped him shelter income. He launched a company called Southern Trust that was described as a DNA data-mining operation.

It generated $200 million in revenue with no identifiable product.

And underneath all of it, the persistent allegation: that Epstein's properties were wired with hidden cameras. That he was running a blackmail operation on behalf of, or at least useful to, intelligence agencies.

That the wealth wasn't just about money. It was about leverage.

So here's what we actually know. A college dropout walked away untouched from a $450 million Ponzi scheme. Gained total financial control over a billionaire's fortune through a power of attorney arrangement that no credible advisor would recommend.

Collected hundreds of millions in "fees" from a small number of ultra-wealthy clients for services that remain opaque.

Built a company that generated $200 million with no visible product. And maintained relationships with intelligence figures from the beginning of his career to the end of it.

Here's what we don't know...

Why was Epstein never charged for the Towers Financial fraud when he was named as its architect under oath?

Where did the Ponzi scheme money actually go?

What was the real function of Southern Trust, and who was paying $200 million for a product that didn't seem to exist?

Were the "management fees" from Wexner, Black, and others actually compensation for financial advice, or payment for something else entirely?

What happened to the surveillance recordings from his properties?

Was the wealth itself the point, or was it infrastructure for an intelligence operation that required mansions, islands, jets, and access to the most powerful people in the world?

The money is the part of the Epstein story that nobody can explain with a straight face. And that might be the most important thing about it.

Well if the Department of Justice and the FBI say it, it must be untrue. How are they to be trusted, especially when they're being politicized to the extent that they are right now?

Trump has a lot to answer for, he had a two decade long friendship with Epstein, who said on record Don was his closest friend in the world. There's countless amounts of information about Trump having spent an inordinate amount of time at the mansion, and there are flight records showing that Trump flew to Orgy Island at least seven times, possibly many more times than that, and we know what his penchant was for "very young women".

Have you forgotten how many times he mentioned Biden covering up the Epstein files?

Isn't that exactly what he's doing now? And why doesn't that matter to you anymore?

Will you guys please stop this nonsense, will you please stop insisting on the release of these files? I'm not guilty, I was never friends with Epstein, we were never close, we didn't hang out together, the photos of us with our arms around each other were all doctored, I didn't spend a lot of time at his mansion, I didn't take multiple trips to Orgy Island, I've never been with underage women, I've never sexually assaulted a woman, and I've never committed rape.

Can't you see how incredibly handsome and appealing I am? Why would I need to do that, all women want me, and I can just grab them by the pussy, just so just stop with the nonsense, and leave it alone.

I know I may have mentioned it several hundred times during the campaign, but I'm the king now, so you guys need to just forget it and behave like loyal subjects and show me alot of fealty. Behave yourselves.

There are some politicians that come along who are ignorant, thick-headed and just don't understand how politics work. Trump is one of them. Yes he was able to lie to and manipulate enough people to get elected twice, but he is simply not smart enough to handle his own PR. Like Bill Clinton, had Don just simply admitted that Epstein had procured many women for him over the course of their friendship (but insisted that they weren't underaged) it's very likely this thing would have just gone away. Most Americans simply presume that he used Epstein's gals (though some of us presume they were likely underaged, making Trump a serial statutory rapist). But that cannot be proven so if he simply admitted that he got busy with Epstein and his gals this whole thing probably would not have stuck. After all, Trump is morally depraved and ethically bankrupt, so why wouldn't he have used Epstein's gals?

Like Clinton and his lies it just won't go away, and it does appear to be Trump's personal brand of Kryptonite. Sorry Don. Your guilt sticks to you like a very ugly and contagious disease. In your particular case you are very, very guilty until proven innocent, which will never happen.

Next to be fired with Kash Patel. Not hiring the best people for sure.

On 3/5/2026 at 9:45 AM, Watawattana said:

Shouldn't the liars be jailed rather than replaced? Sued for misleading to the public whose money pays for them? Goes for politicians of all colours by the way.

It is the US , liars are not jailed.

If you are in a select club , you can rape and murder kids, no punishment.

6 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

Next to be fired with Kash Patel. Not hiring the best people for sure.

I think Bondi is next to go.

Kash can stew a little longer.

On 3/5/2026 at 8:24 AM, Thingamabob said:

The likely revelations from the release of the Epstein files are being vastly over-estimated. Mostly they are rather dull and of little interest.

Mandelson already released. No charges, no ongoing restrictions.

On 3/5/2026 at 9:13 AM, FlorC said:

Another opportunity to lie, she is good at it.

She should have been replaced a year ago.

She is performing exactly the way donald wants her to but failing as an the AG in the normal world she would have been disbarred and cashiered allready.Unfortunately this is the trump administration they don’t abide by the law.she better have a blanket pardon in her purse cause this coverup / obstruction is going to follow her for life.

6 hours ago, Tug said:

She is performing exactly the way donald wants her to but failing as an the AG in the normal world she would have been disbarred and cashiered allready.Unfortunately this is the trump administration they don’t abide by the law.she better have a blanket pardon in her purse cause this coverup / obstruction is going to follow her for life.

Oh , come on Tug !!

Your side invented lawfare to the tenth power.

Your side has kangaroo courts.

Your side the judge says to the jury that the accused is guilty.

Your AG was not just a liar like Bondi , he was a criminal.